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012020 Show 62 Mix For Martin

by: KQBM

Publication date: 2020-01-20

Topics: KQBM, Ruckus, music, dance, racial, diverse, diversity

Language: english-handwritten

“With
this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood” — Martin Luther King Jr. Today’s Ruckus!
celebrates a transformation of American (and world) music that began in the
reverberations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 ‘I Have a Dream’
speeches. Black and white kids playing
together… and growing up and playing music together. In the mid 60s, one of the first racially
diverse new groups was the Paul Butterfield Blues Band – at the time, it seemed
unexceptional to my friends and me while we wore the grooves off our copies of
the East-West LP. Today on the Ruckus! we
also hear from Francine Reed and Lyle Lovett with his Large Band, Bonnie Raitt
and Habib Koite/Bamada playing with their combined bands, The Derek Trucks
Band, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Herbie Hancock & Johnny Lang & Joss
Stone, Us3, and Angelique Kidjo and Dave Matthews, plus an elegy to the pork pie
hat from Charles Mingus. Black, white,
penguin. Incidentally, Cantaloop (Flip
Fantasia) is an adapted version of Herbie Hancock’s classic, Cantaloupe
Island. I hope this hour of music will provide
a sense of connections, and inspire some dancing in the heart or from the feet
on up.